..to think that the postman is playing silly buggers now

[AdelaideJo]

I'm probably being overly sensitive/cynical, but this just smacks of vengeance!

Have had 3 parcels delvered in as many months to our new place. Occasion #1 - i'm waiting for my GroupStrep B kit, see the postman walk to my door and shove "while you were out card" through without ringing bell. I rang up the number on the card and got it redelivered the next day after I moaned at them.

Occasion #2 - DP gets parcel. Postman puts finger on the bell for literally a nanosecond, DP happens to be passing by door at the time and so gets parcel.

Occasion #3 - Postman turns up Saturday just gone, shoves while you were out card through.

When i went to sorting office to collect it (by the way I am due any day now, and have 2 year old to schlep around to sorting office), I asked why didn't the postman ring the bell and could he please start to do it? Guy at counter totally unhelpful.
Now yesterday, postman turns up, LEANS on my doorbell for ages! When i get to the door he hands me 3 letters and walks away! No parcels nothing. Today, I get no post of our own, but a whole pile of post for the house 2 doors down.

I'm raising one eyebrow. I've really pissed him off by complaining haven't i.
Answers on a postcard please. Smirk.

Why the smirk? Followed you up til that bit.

Presumably because the postcard would be delivered by the postman in question

There was a dispatches-type of program on a few weeks ago about how Royal Mail are saving money by posting "while you were out" cards when they don't even have the parcels with them. You then have the expense of driving to the sorting office to collect the parcel.

I don't know why he would do it when he has the parcel with him though?

And yes, ringing the doorbell to hand you letters that (I assume) would fit through your letterbox is just being pissy. I assume he doesn't ring everyone's doorbells to deliver their letters (unless they need to be signed for) so it sounds like he is making a point...

Someone doesn't really want to be a postman, I'm guessing. Take the complaint a little higher if you feel like it - but yes, you are In Their Hands.

Complain again. Keep complaining until he does his job.

Ring Royal Mail to complain. You might get a book of stamps as compensation. But tell them that you don't want your delivery person to know that it was you who complained about them.

Oh I'd want him to know who complained. I had a similar problem a few years ago - the post service knew exactly who I was and who I was complaining about - repeatedly!

Oh sorry amd a bit slow

Yes postie is pissed off with you.

Yes to dispatches program the other week. They were posting the whie you were out cards to save having to ring the doorbell and wait for someone to come. Speeds the round up.

I don't think complaining will do anything TBH. they have you over a barrel.

Yep, I saw the dispatches programme about this too and I even caught out my own postie doing this. As others have said ring Royal Mail, it's not on!

yeah i do agree - normally i'm not backwards in coming forwards to complain abput stuff, but this guy is obviously a bit of a tosser and he has my bloody bank statements/personal info. at his disposal to do what he likes with.

Its pretty bloody infuriating though. If i get someone else's post tomorrow i'm going to dump it on his stupid bicycle.

Its not so much the cutting corners thats annoyed me, its the vengeful behaviour because i've had the cheek to complain that he hasn't done his job properly.

This is the problem with having a ruck with the postman - he knows where you live and you can't really do anything about it

I know. I really should learn my lesson about "constructive complaining". Thing is, I work in a job where if am sloppy and I got ticked off, i'd kind of take it on the chin and expect a bit more from myself.

So far we've got one missing payslip from this week and a tax letter dated 20th March. But i'm going to just see how it goes, the last thing i'm going to do is make it worse by complaining again .

see, this is why the RM gets such bad press.

after that Dispatches programme, the posties were talking about it over breakfast and they were all really shocked about the revelations.
but they also seemedto have a few stories about prats like that over the years (not all in our DO)

i would recommend still complaining and to a higher power than the man in the caller's office (he's likely to have painted a worse picture than you made)

it's not on, because most posties do a great job.

I would continue to complain.

As it happens, our postmen are great - just to even it up a bit.